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Twitter, famous for their 140-character text updates, has decided that attaching and embedding images and video into tweets isn't enough for Twitter users. In an announcement, it was revealed that now, Images and Video will appear in the Twitter stream as previews, and that the multimedia can now be shared without any text at all.

The contest will never die. For the same reason we buy lottery tickets, root for sports teams and play board games, contests remain a popular marketing tactic. We like having the chance, no matter how remote, to win something.

It has been a little over two months since Instagram launched its video capturing and sharing addition to the popular photo app, which is now available on the iOS and Android operating systems and has really captured the imagination of Instagram users.

Vine, the 6-second video creation and sharing network owned by Twitter, has released a major update to their service that dramatically improves user's capability for finding and discovering great video. According to Vine's blog, "This is our biggest, most exciting update yet — and we’ve got even more coming soon."

I first read and fell in love with A Game of Thrones back in 1998. I waited a year for the second volume in the series to come out, then another year for the third volume... after discovering that author George R.R. Martin decided to extend the series from a trilogy all the way to seven volumes... and waited five then six years for volumes four and five, respectively.

Vine is a video-sharing platform that, like Twitter, is all about abbrevation. Rather than posting videos that can go on for some time, like on YouTube, Vine videos can only last 6 seconds and are designed to loop much like animated GIF images.